DRI promotes the human rights of people with disabilities. Their website offers extensive documentation of human rights violations against children and adults with disabilities in institutions around the world, as well as content promoting an end to the institutionalization of children everywhere.

Find data and fact sheets comparing disability-related policies from around the world. These particularly focus on the rights of people with disabilities under the constitution of their country, access to disability inclusive education, access to income support, and access to family health needs.

Unless the inclusion of people with disabilities is specifically outlined in funding solicitations from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), this key population is largely left out when projects are implemented. This report summarizes the results of a review of 85 USAID funding solicitations.

IDDC promotes the rights of people with disabilities through collaboration and the exchange of information. Has links to publications on a range of topics related to disability and development and key topics such as HIV/AIDS. Click on “disability and development topics.”

The purpose of Handicap International's Making It Work Initiative is to inspire practitioners, policy makers and advocates in their effective implementation of the CRPD by collecting and exchanging examples of good practices and advocating for good policies that are in line with the CRPD.

MIUSA’s International Development and Disability program acts as a bridge between the disability community and international development community to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities as leaders and participants in development.

Mobility International lists links to various free resources that can help mainstream international development agencies become more inclusive of people with disabilities in their programs and activities.

Handicap International offers suggestions on how national Poverty Reduction Strategies can include people with disabilities. Also provides background information, links, resources, and tools on issues relevant to Poverty Reduction Strategies; disability and project and process management; and advocacy and lobbying.

This tool provides financial service providers with insight into the difference between client targeting and harmful discrimination and illuminates examples of common forms of discrimination. Finally, the tool provides financial service providers with seven action steps to correct and prevent discrimination.

The Movement to Include People with Disabilities in a Human Rights Framework, written by Julia Wolhandler, looks at the history of the implementation of the CRPD and its importance on the inclusion of people with disabilities in the international human rights framework.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has provided this sample demonstration of their full online training. UNDP has made the full version of the training available to organizations on a cost-recovery basis. Address inquiries to: Geraldine Glassman, email: geraldine.glassman@undp.org 212-906-5281

USICD serves as both a technical resource and a relationship builder to people with disabilities for NGO, government and corporate partners. Its mission is to promote the rights and full participation of persons with disabilities through global engagement and United States foreign affairs. USICD has engaged in a range of initiatives meant to promote and enable greater disability inclusion in foreign assistance and international development programs abroad, as well as engaging in its own international projects.

This group considers how to standardize disability-related data collection methods around the world so that the resulting statistics about people with disabilities can be more easily comparable between different countries and across different points in time.

Published by the World Health Organization in 2011, this extensive resource not only gives the statistics on disability in the world (it ls believed that at least 1,000,000,000 people or 15% of the worlds population have disabilities), but also best practices on solutions to world disability challenges.

The World Bank offers an extensive list of links to mainstream organizations in the international development community. Many of these organizations include a focus on disability as one part of their activities. The list includes multi-lateral donors (development banks); bi-lateral donors (government agencies devoted to development); foundations; bibliographic sources; and more.

Women Enabled International (WEI) advocates for the rights of women and girls with disabilities in collaboration with women’s and women with disabilities rights organizations worldwide. WEI focuses on human rights programming and training in developing and post-conflict countries, and consulting services for inclusion of disabled women and girls in international policy and development. WEI prepares recommendations for UN treaty bodies as they draft General Comments and country reviews.

A new initiative enables users to find deaf organizations and schools in 149 countries around the world. Launched by the Gallaudet University Center for International Programs and Services (CIPS) in October 2009, the World Deaf Information Resource Project provides contact information for hundreds of international-, national-, and local-level organizations and schools globally. The website also links to on-line reports about the human rights conditions and living situation of deaf people around the world and other information resources for deaf individuals and organizations.

Founded by leaders in the independent living movement, WID works to strengthen the disability movement through research, training, advocacy and public education. Has some publications and other web content on international development.

This 73-page report describes frequent abuse and discrimination by strangers, neighbors, and even family members against women and girls with disabilities in the north. Women interviewed for the report said they were not able to get basic provisions such as food, clothing, and shelter in camps for displaced persons or in their own communities.

USAID Resources

The Fifth Report on the Implementation of USAID Disability Policy describes USAID missions' redoubled efforts to integrate people with disabilities into their programs and to develop more specific programs that promote equality for and empowerment of people with disabilities.

Unless the inclusion of people with disabilities is specifically outlined in funding solicitations from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), this key population is largely left out when projects are implemented. This report summarizes the results of a review of 85 USAID funding solicitations.